Chinese history, institutions, and thought from 500 BC to 1949, with particular emphasis on sociology and economic history of ancient China.

When published in 1982, this translation of Professor Jacques Gernet's masterly survey of the history and culture of China was immediately welcomed by critics and readers. This revised and updated edition makes it more useful for students and for the general reader concerned with the broad sweep of China's past.

David Noel Keightley (born October 25, 1932) is an American sinologist, historian, and scholar, and was for many years a professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley.Keightley is best known for his studies of Chinese oracle bones and oracle bone script.

David Noel Keightley (born October 25, 1932) is an American sinologist, historian, and scholar, and was for many years a professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley.Keightley is best known for his studies of Chinese oracle bones and oracle bone script.

Elucidates the difference knowledge makes to our existence as civilized people. Advancing detailed criticism of philosophy's usual approach to knowledge, Knowledge and Civilization offers a new, original way of framing philosophical questions about knowledge. It describes a redirection in the philosophy of knowledge, away from textbook problems of epistemology, toward an ec...(展开全部)

Elucidates the difference knowledge makes to our existence as civilized people. Advancing detailed criticism of philosophy's usual approach to knowledge, Knowledge and Civilization offers a new, original way of framing philosophical questions about knowledge. It describes a redirection in the philosophy of knowledge, away from textbook problems of epistemology, toward an ec...(展开全部)

本書對科學史史家所知最引人入勝且歷史最悠久的機構之一：中國皇家天文機構（欽天監 ）提出新的見解，2,000年來此機構觀察、記錄、解釋並預測了天體的運行。利用檔案資料如呈給皇室閱覽的履歷、人事管理的記錄等，本書追索晚明至清末超過30個世代奉公於欽天監的家族的盛衰。亦深入介紹欽天監的組織結構與職掌，簡單扼要地敘述欽天監對多爾袞親王攝政、耶穌會士的效應、康熙-雍正帝與欽天監疇人世家何氏的關係、1730年日蝕誤報……等明、清兩代歷史事件發展的影響。《1620至1850年間的欽天監：天文世家、官僚主義與專業知能》（The Chinese Astronomical Bureau, 1620–1850: Lineages, Bureaucracy and Technical Expertise）從天文學家家族的角度，介紹欽天監的社會史，對中華帝國史、 #科學史 與...(展开全部)